3rd Six Weeks | Hospitality and Tourism | 5 class periods, 50 minutes each
Lesson Objective
Students explore three hospitality careers, use the Find Your Future Culinary Twist, Motivation, Hotel Rescue, and Cater and Create activities, compare three careers with fixed current evidence, and recommend a career and small-business opportunity for a defined student scenario.
Learning Target: I can use career evidence and client needs to make and explain hospitality decisions.
Success Criteria:
- I can name three hospitality careers and describe a task from each.
- I can compare the May 2024 U.S. median pay and common preparation for all three careers.
- I can distinguish intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and transfer the idea across careers.
- I can solve a hotel crisis without ignoring safety, accessibility, or an unverified promise.
- I can describe what a hospitality entrepreneur sells, coordinates, and risks.
Demonstration of Learning
Students submit an individual Hospitality Career and Business Recommendation. The response uses one correctly labeled career-data fact, one preparation or schedule tradeoff, one career task, one small-business opportunity, and a current Irving ISD connection when supported.
TEKS Alignment
- d(1)(B): Explore the Hospitality and Tourism career cluster through the FYF opener and three career contexts.
- d(1)(C): Identify culinary, lodging, event-planning, guest-service, and related opportunities.
- d(3)(I): Define entrepreneurship and identify restaurant, catering, lodging, and event-service opportunities.
- d(4)(B): Transfer motivation and service/problem-solving skills among multiple careers.
- d(5)(E): Compare the salaries of at least three careers using one consistent source, date, geography, and measure.
Materials Needed
- Find Your Future printed pp. 111-113, 117-123, and 124-125 as district workbook context
- Hospitality Career Evidence Guide
- Culinary Twist Menu Brief, only for a no-workbook or Canvas-annotation route
- Motivation and Hospitality Career Comparison, one two-page double-sided copy per student when paper is needed
- Hotel Rescue Role and Crisis Cards, projected or one three-page set per team
- Hotel Rescue Team and Individual Response, one two-page double-sided copy per student when paper is needed
- Cater and Create Event Brief, one page per student
- Hospitality Career and Business Recommendation and 16-point rubric, in Canvas or printed double-sided
- Colored pencils or markers; paper remains an equal route
- Optional district-approved Canva for Education or Adobe Express access
No food preparation or tasting is required. H&L, Xello Decision Making, and eDynamic Unit 6.1 are optional extensions rather than core evidence.
Career Connection
The current Irving ISD CTE site lists the School of Culinary Arts/Hospitality Services at Singley Academy, including Culinary Arts and Hospitality Services. The district also lists Lodging and Resort Management at Irving High School, MacArthur High School, and Nimitz High School. Singley's CTE page identifies FireBird Cafe Catering as a student-run business. These are opportunities to investigate, not guarantees of admission, certification, employment, or pay.
The fixed career guide uses May 2024 BLS U.S. medians: Chef or Head Cook, $60,990; Lodging Manager, $68,130; Meeting, Convention, and Event Planner, $59,440. The guide preserves preparation, outlook, annual openings, schedule differences, and the national-median boundary. Xello may add localized evidence only when geography, date, and measure are visible.
Vocabulary
- Hospitality: Work that supports guest food, lodging, events, travel, or experiences.
- Median pay: The middle pay among workers in an occupation.
- Intrinsic motivation: Motivation connected to learning, achievement, attitude, or personal pride.
- Extrinsic motivation: Motivation connected to an outside reward, recognition, influence, or avoided consequence.
- Entrepreneur: A person who starts and operates a business and takes responsibility for its decisions and risks.
- Tradeoff: A choice that gains one benefit while accepting a cost, limit, or risk.
Source Grounding
- Day 1: FYF p. 111, "Exploring the World of HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM," and pp. 112-113, "Culinary Twist."
- Day 2: FYF pp. 121-123, "Powerskill: Motivation," plus fixed BLS evidence.
- Day 3: FYF pp. 117-118, "Hotel Rescue."
- Day 4: FYF pp. 119-120, "Cater and Create."
- Day 5: fixed BLS evidence, current Irving ISD CTE pages, and the week's student artifacts.
Restaurant Rebrand, H&L App Exploration, Xello Decision Making, and eDynamic Unit 6.1 may be used as extensions. They are not required for this week's assessment.
Week at a Glance
| Day | Focus | Core action | Evidence | 5E |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Culinary Twist | Plan a dish within ingredient constraints and build a readable menu item | Individual menu brief | Engage, Explore, Explain, Evaluate |
| 2 | Motivation and career evidence | Design two kinds of motivation and compare three careers | Competition plan and three-career comparison | Engage, Explain, Explore, Evaluate |
| 3 | Hotel Rescue | Solve one assigned hotel crisis through coordinated roles | Team map and individual transfer response | Engage, Explore, Explain, Evaluate |
| 4 | Cater and Create | Design a connected client experience and revise it after a reader test | Event brief and revision | Engage, Explore, Extend, Evaluate |
| 5 | Career and business recommendation | Compare evidence and write a scenario-based recommendation | Mapped 16-point Minor 2 checkpoint | Engage, Explain, Extend, Evaluate |
Assessment and Grading
Days 1-4 are formative practice. Do not grade art polish, platform choice, public speaking confidence, or whether a classmate was available.
Mapped minor grade: Hospitality Career and Business Recommendation, 16 raw rubric points converted to the existing 100-point Canvas Minor 2 assignment.
- Career evidence: 4 points
- Preparation and tradeoff: 4 points
- Entrepreneurship: 4 points
- Recommendation and verified local connection: 4 points
This is Minor 2 in 3SW. The importer must find exactly one unpublished 100-point assignment in Minor Assessments (40%) before it writes any Wk4 content. The rubric conversion is (raw score / 16) × 100, rounded to the nearest whole number.
Differentiation
- Keep all required directions visible in Canvas. Use disclosures only for vocabulary, models, and catch-up.
- Provide bilingual labels and short word banks rather than automatic full translation.
- Allow oral rehearsal, speech-to-text, enlarged print, and teacher conferencing.
- Use teacher-assigned ingredients, roles, and crisis cards when partner selection creates a barrier.
- Canvas annotation, file upload, paper, Canva, and Adobe Express are equal when they show the same evidence.
- An absent student completes the same individual evidence with the embedded workbook images and fixed guides. Team participation is replaced by the structured individual route.